Meanings
- not comparableAble to conduct business without using a middleman.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71 - not comparablecomputingConnected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
With the peer-to-peer backup paradigm, each file is copied over to another peer in the system rather than to a central backup site.
2004, Dinesh Verma, Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98Synonyms: P2P
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveConnected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
Translations
Arabic نِدّ لِنِد, نِدّ لِنِد
- نِدّ لِنِد (nidd linid)of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman
- نِدّ لِنِد (nidd linid)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
Bulgarian равноправен, децентрализиран
- равноправен (ravnopraven)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
- децентрализиран (decentraliziran)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
- еднорангов (ednorangov)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
Finnish keskinäinen, vertainen
- keskinäinenof a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman
- vertainenof a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman
- vertaisverkko-of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
Greek διομότιμος, ομότιμος
- διομότιμος (diomótimos)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
- ομότιμος (omótimos)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
Italian senza intermediari
- senza intermediariof a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman
Russian пи́ринговый, децентрализо́ванный
- пи́ринговый (píringovyj)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
- децентрализо́ванный (decentralizóvannyj)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
- однора́нговый (odnorángovyj)of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
Cite this entry
peer-to-peer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peer-to-peer
“peer-to-peer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peer-to-peer. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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